winterayars
@winterayars@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on This might blow up in our face 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s looking increasingly likely but i’m still holding out hope.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 2 weeks ago:
The strategy is “Never Play Defense”.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 2 weeks ago:
They know what’s going on, they know what they’re doing. They just don’t care, they like Trump they just can’t argue their case and don’t care to.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 1 month ago:
Isn’t that Hollow Knight?
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
One of the originators of the idea of “planned obsolescence”. Even after the cartel got killed the manufacturers never extended the life of the lights into (to an extent) CFLs and then moreso the days of LEDs.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
They’ve been sabotaged by design. LEDs should last 10+ years if built even half away reasonably, but unfortunately the manufacturers basically got together and agreed to build them in such a way they would fail. Same as regular light bulbs, they just have to work harder.
I still have some of the earliest modern LED bulbs on the market–old Philips ones, the AmbientLED (i think) with the yellow casing and large heat sinks. They’ve been running for like 15 years now and not a one of them has failed. I spent several hundred USD replacing all my bulbs with those back in the day and they’ve done me well.
Modern bulbs are trash by comparison. Not because the technology is limited in some way but because they refuse to make anything to that quality anymore.
We need an alternate solution to this planned obsolescence bullshit. Light bulbs hit 50k rated hours long ago and they were talking about making ones that went 100k+ but these days you can’t find anything above 25k. And that’s setting aside the fact that a lot of these rely on apps that could be dropped at a moment’s notice.
- Comment on Scam speeding ticket 2 months ago:
Fake speeding tickets as a service…
- Comment on If you have sex with a clone of yourself, is it incest? 2 months ago:
Heinlein’s “all you zombies” is an early version of this.
In terms of biology, it’s extremely rare for humans to have fully functioning sets of both reproductive systems. The reproductive physiology develops from the same parts so it either develops “male”, “female”, or (more common than people think) somewhere in between but not “both”. A clone may or may not even develop in the same way.
One other possibility, though also very rare. is near-identical twins. If twins have the same genetics (in other words, they’re identical twins) but have intersex conditions that result in different reproductive development it’s conceivable that they could reproduce with each other. It’s uncommon to be fertile incongruous with your genetics, though, so again: this would be extremely unlikely.
That said, in a sci-fi context there are some options. Biological hermaphroditism is possible in animals, though there aren’t any vertebrates on Earth, so conceivably an alien species could encounter this problem.
Advanced medicine could also build people a new reproductive system and implant it, giving them the counterpart they lacked.
Of course, in that case, advanced medicine may also be able to give you someone else’s reproductive genetics (ex, implanted sperm or eggs) and thus effectively sidestep the genetic problems. I’m imagining a particularly narcissistic person getting a gender-flipped clone of themself and using someone else’s genetic material to have a kid with themself but also avoid the shallow gene pool problem.
Of course, you don’t need to go that far. If you’re female (or have those parts anyway) you can just do IVF. Don’t even need to clone yourself, then.
Anyway, this is getting a little silly.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
“High T alpha males” oh good, they invented a new gender again and it sucks.
- Comment on Hes alive so this meme is OK right? 4 months ago:
A lot of them already called him “the God Emperor”, so…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Kind of a Hitleriam 'stache, too, being completely honest.
- Comment on Public trust 8 months ago:
Sugar free cookies! Serving size 1/100th of a cookie, round the grams of sugar down to zero! May as well, what’re they going to do? Stop you?
- Comment on Public trust 8 months ago:
They still do reduce transmission to yourself but yeah, the big win is in not spreading it yourself.
- Comment on IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update... 8 months ago:
Yep, they may not know what’s going on, there may be a bug in their system, either the update nag or the block on the new update may be incorrect.
- Comment on The world in 2024 10 months ago:
But they’ll still make themselves out to be poor orphans begging for scraps on the street corner because their wealth and power pales in comparison to their greed. It could never hope to keep up.
- Comment on Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to ‘blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,’ new research finds 10 months ago:
Funny they actually admitted it, when they wanted to bring me back into office in mid 2020 they just lied and said everyone wanted to come back but me. A quick off the record chat with my coworkers said otherwise.
- Comment on Yeah, I'm gonna take a second opinion on that... 10 months ago:
Turn a bowl upside-down and slap this bad boy on top of it. Boom, proof the bowl is a plate.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Being a shield against the decisions of upper management is the kind of class traitor work the person above is talking about. HR’s job is taking that kind of decision and turning it into something that can be executed with the least likelihood of an office shooting or lawsuit. Whether either of those things are warranted or not.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 10 months ago:
That’s basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Maybe enough people resigned.
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 10 months ago:
No way was i missing a Ferrari Enzo.
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 10 months ago:
I saw the Ferrari and the plane immediately but not the tank. I guess camo works sometimes even if it’s in a stupid environment for it.
- Comment on Task failed successfully? 10 months ago:
I guarantee his death is listed as “suicide” in the official report.
- Comment on My hand are normal, and loook 11 months ago:
This could be Devilman.
- Comment on What's the deal with the popcorn button? 11 months ago:
You’re right and you should say it.
- Comment on 2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms) 1 year ago:
Yeah but that wasn’t a scandal. The news, his peers, everyone (important) was all on the same side. At least on the drone strike thing. Not everyone was happy about him winning the Nobel.
- Comment on Born on the wrong side of the fence. 1 year ago:
You don’t get to measure one against the other and then, if the other side turns out to have done “more war crimes” then you’re exonerated. That’s not how that works.
- Comment on Born on the wrong side of the fence. 1 year ago:
War crimes don’t cancel each other out or something. You don’t add up the war crimes each side has committed and then if they’re equal everyone calls it fair game.
- Comment on Born on the wrong side of the fence. 1 year ago:
Cool story, still a war crime.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 1 year ago:
This thread has a lot of frankly bad takes in it. Lots of people going “the majority of people are just hard wired to love authority” and that’s just wrong. Psychological research into authoritarian personalities (the kind of people who are like that) tells us authoritarian follower personalities not rare but by no means are they the majority.
I think you know where all this stuff comes from because the fact that you’re asking the question at all makes me think you’re on the other side of the authoritarian follower spectrum (anti-authoritarian). What would happen to the person who rejected authority figures? They would be hurt. That does not come about by accident and it’s not some innate feature of human psychology. It is intentional. Authority (control) is maintained with violence. Either soft violence (neglect) or actually capital-V Violence.